Re: [LAU] arch users?

On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 07:00 +0800, Ray Rashif wrote:
> 2009/12/4 Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee@email-addr-hidden>
> On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 09:50 -1000, david wrote:
> > Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 08:09 -0500, drew Roberts wrote:
> > >> On Thursday 03 December 2009 05:04:26 Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
> > >>>> Oh, I was thinking Golden Arch Linux would be the
> paid-support version
> > >>>> of Arch Linux.
> > >>> Quite difficult to have a 'paid-support' version of a
> distro that's not
> > >>> owned/managed by a company =).
> > >> Yup, but not too difficult to have paid support for a
> distro that's not
> > >> owned/managed by a company.Right?
> > >>
> > >> all the best,
> > >>
> > >> drew
> > > I guess. Doubt it'd be a good economic prospect in any
> case, considering
> > > the user base either:-
> > > a) doesn't need your help
> > > b) needs your help but won't pay for it cos "OMGZZ THIS
> ISN'T WINDOWS
> > > WHY SHOULD I PAY"
> > >
> > > Disclaimer: I use Arch myself, and I know very very few
> users who fall
> > > into b). Few isn't none, however =)
> >
> > Well, I've bought Linux software in the past when FOSS
> software couldn't
> > do what I needed it to, so there are folk who buy Linux
> software. I even
> > bought my first Linux distro (CorelLinux).
> >
>
> Yes, I don't argue that purchasing Linux software is
> off-limits, but
> that when the entirety of the software is already available
> free,
> purchasing support is a much more iffy member for individual
> desktop
> users, as broadly divided into the groups mentioned above.
>
> Really, the market for paid support is (as I see it) mostly a
> corporate/governmental thing, and none of those would ever
> consider Arch
> Linux and its rolling release in any form =).
>
>
> Wait..wtf are we talking about now? I remember it was something about
> McDonald's, the M and the A, the Ronald and the Teepee :O
>

As with all (most?) ML discussions, its gone off on its own tangent =)

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